Reindeer Games

Dancer - 2012-12-05

Dancer is a Perl micro-web framework originally based on Ruby's Sinatra. Its status as a micro-framework means, amongst other things, that it is a very nimble creature, and can be thus showed many nifty tricks.

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It doesn't take a lot of boilerplate to create a minimalistic web service with Dancer. For example, want to have a web service returning a random song in the current directory to help the party's DJ? There we go: